Building Composite Application for Lotus Notes 8 Katherine Sewell, Advisory Software Engineer for IBM Software Group

Stephen Auriemma, Advisory Software Engineer for IBM Software Group

HND101

Agenda Composite Application Overview

Definition and Benefits Programming Models End-to-End Process Building Components Assembling and Wiring Components

Demonstration

Hands-on

References

Related Sessions

Q & A

What are Composite Applications? Collection of user facing components brought together for a

specific business purposefront end of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Programming model supported in Portal and Notessurface content from multiple systemsaggregate different component types

Support business flexibilitymix-n-match and loose couplinguser effectiveness

Benefits of Composite Applications Improve user efficiency through contextual collaboration

tools for integration and collaboration in the context of everyday applications

Exploit IT investments and strategy by heterogenous technologies Notes applications/databases Eclipse components (e.g. embedded browser) portlets and WSRP other component types, including desktop applications

On demand business applications via Service Oriented Architecture loosely coupled components

Property Broker Programming Model Component interaction

loosely coupled through properties and actionsmix-and-match component technologies

Property is a typed exchangeable data

Action is the logic to consume a property

Components define their properties and actions

Wire connects properties to actionscausal relationship1-to-1 or 1-to-many wiring options

Composite Application Editor – Assembly and Wiring Edit composite applications stored in NSF or on Portal* Notes and Eclipse components added to and displayed on palette Drag-n-drop components onto page for WYSIWYG display Edit component runtime properties Wiring interface displays properties and actions of included components Connect properties to actions in 1-to-1 or 1-to-N causal relationships Notes 8 rich client runtime for defined wiring is property broker

CAE – Layout Editor

CAE – Wiring Tool

Property Broker Editor

New Features in Lotus Notes 8.0.1 Relative links to components

@Formulas to calculate links to NSF components

LotusScript APIs and @Formulas to get CA context

Built in actions

Open documents on pages

Role based access to pages

No wiring restrictions in CAE

Scoping of properties and actions to rectangles in CAE

New PIM components

Toolbox

Calculated Links to NSF Componentscom.ibm.notes.computedNotesURL

@GetProfileField("URL Profile";"NotesURL")com.ibm.notes.processOnlyOnUpdate'

false

Get Composite Application Context NotesUIWorkspace.IsInCompositeApp

NotesUIWorkspace.GetComponentViewPreference

@IsInCompositeApp

@GetComponentViewPreference

Related Sessions Hands-On Sessions

HND103 Developing Eclipse Plug-ins to Extend IBM Lotus Notes 8.

Best Practices BP103 Building Composite Applications in IBM Lotus Notes BP218 IBM Lotus Notes 8 and IBM Lotus Expeditor Customization for LotusScript

Developers

Application Development Sessions AD103 Creating Eclipse-based Components for Composite Applications AD104 Developing Composite Applications to Solve Real-World Challenges AD105 Leveraging Third Party and Legacy Components in IBM Lotus Notes

Composite Applications AD106 Building Composite Applications for IBM Lotus Notes 8, IBM WebSphere

Portal and Mobile Audience AD107 Designing Great User Interfaces for Composite Applications AD201 The Amazing IBM Lotus Notes 8: Extendable with Plugins".

References Composite Applications Blog

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/CompApps http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/CompApps?entry=blog_sitemap

Official Composite Applications Site http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/composite-apps

Redbook: Building Composite Applications http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg247367.html

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